Hi
According to the UK 1861 census my relations lived in Britannia Court Hammersmith. Currently I am trying to relate my ancestors adress to maps so I can get sense of the environment they lived in.
I am struggling with this one as I cannot establish if Britannia Court is a Road or a multi tenanted building of a road. Some of my research has come up with that it is off Fulham Palace Road but I cannot find it on any Maps.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Steve
*Archive?* Place identification
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Re: Place identification
Think you really need to ask someone on a London Forum Steve, this Rootsweb Mailing List is a good one, people on there have local records and local knowledge:-
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/inde ... ONDON.html
Linell.
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/inde ... ONDON.html
Linell.
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Re: Place identification
Hi!
Hard place to find isn't it?
Sorry if I repeat what you have already got, but here goes...
The description of the census route says
The South side of the Great Western Road from where s*@ and Fulham parishes meet westwards to the corner of the Broadway, chemists shop, then the east side of Queen Street to the Fulham Road, the north side of this road as far as and including Britannia Court. This includes both parts of the Rose & Crown Lane & Shortlands, Downs Yard, Leaping Bar Yard, Union Court & Garden Grove.
There is a sketch map here http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image. ... pubid=1046
which shows Broadway and Queen Street, and a road marked "To Fulham". Rose & Crown Lane is on there, and the area around it is Shortlands.
There is another map here http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?su ... ,2,large,1
You can zoom in a bit and just make out Rose & Crown Lane. It might be worth your while making your own sketchmap based on this one, and then you can try an identify some of the streets and work out what the census route covered. You can used this site for some help
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.go ... _Index_U-Z it gives names of nearby streets, so Union Court is near King Street East (if you can find that!) and Britannia Court should be near Fulham Road (though I'm not sure what they are calling Fulham Road).
Hope this helps and that you work it out.
Hard place to find isn't it?
Sorry if I repeat what you have already got, but here goes...
The description of the census route says
The South side of the Great Western Road from where s*@ and Fulham parishes meet westwards to the corner of the Broadway, chemists shop, then the east side of Queen Street to the Fulham Road, the north side of this road as far as and including Britannia Court. This includes both parts of the Rose & Crown Lane & Shortlands, Downs Yard, Leaping Bar Yard, Union Court & Garden Grove.
There is a sketch map here http://www.british-history.ac.uk/image. ... pubid=1046
which shows Broadway and Queen Street, and a road marked "To Fulham". Rose & Crown Lane is on there, and the area around it is Shortlands.
There is another map here http://booth.lse.ac.uk/cgi-bin/do.pl?su ... ,2,large,1
You can zoom in a bit and just make out Rose & Crown Lane. It might be worth your while making your own sketchmap based on this one, and then you can try an identify some of the streets and work out what the census route covered. You can used this site for some help
http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.go ... _Index_U-Z it gives names of nearby streets, so Union Court is near King Street East (if you can find that!) and Britannia Court should be near Fulham Road (though I'm not sure what they are calling Fulham Road).
Hope this helps and that you work it out.
"The present is the key to the past" - Charles Lyell
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Re: Place identification
Hi
Thank you so much for the info it has proved so useful.
Steve
Thank you so much for the info it has proved so useful.
Steve
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Re: Place identification
Can this be archived now Steve?
Jo
Jo